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Simple:Press Version 5.5.8Von Bontee on Examples of The Beatles borrowing from othershttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p79643
The songshttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p79643Ridiculous Examiner article there, in my opinion. Sure, the Beatles stole little riffs and melodies and phrases that were already out there ("Drive My Car" guitar part from Otis Redding, "life goes on, brah" from Jimmy Scott) but they surely didn't "sample" those artists. Melodic and verbal quotations and imitations are not the same as taking actual physical recordings of the artists in question! Plus there was no such thing as literal digital sampling technology when the band were active, of course.
]]>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:44:36 -0500mewbie on Examples of The Beatles borrowing from othershttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p79629
The songshttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p79629Maybe because most of us are grown after that era?At least I am..

what they did is pretty much similar, covering popular songs, genius songwriting , although not as far as The Beatles did,

but the Beatles was pioneering what Industry standard leading artist now.

]]>Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:48:19 -0500Zig on Examples of The Beatles borrowing from othershttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78920
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]]>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 14:59:24 -0500Linde on Examples of The Beatles borrowing from othershttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78906
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Zig said
There must be dozens of examples - this is nothing new. The Beatles, to a man, admitted many times that they nicked ideas from everybody they ever heard and liked. The key for them was to not just steal the ideas, but to make them better.

The earliest example that comes to mind is the Roy Orbison style originally used for 'Please Please Me'.

In Holland we have a saying which basically says it's better to steal ideas and make them better than to come up with ideas yourself that are shit.

If I literally translate it it's ''Better ...]]>

Tue, 06 Aug 2013 09:56:42 -0500parlance on Examples of The Beatles borrowing from othershttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78854
The songshttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78854Oh, yeah, I'm not placing a judgment, I just find spotting the references fun.

parlance

]]>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:53:25 -0500Zig on Examples of The Beatles borrowing from othershttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78852
The songshttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78852There must be dozens of examples - this is nothing new. The Beatles, to a man, admitted many times that they nicked ideas from everybody they ever heard and liked. The key for them was to not just steal the ideas, but to make them better.

The earliest example that comes to mind is the Roy Orbison style originally used for 'Please Please Me'.

]]>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 19:37:33 -0500Linde on Examples of The Beatles borrowing from othershttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78790
The songshttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78790I never realised they borrowed that much. Although I think some of those things are really far-fetched.
]]>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 16:23:41 -0500parlance on Examples of The Beatles borrowing from othershttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78768
The songshttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78768I didn't realized that John's Merry Xmas (War Is Over) referenced an old English song. When I was kid, I'd wondered how the Jamaican tourism industry got away with using that tune.

parlance

]]>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 23:23:27 -0500bikelock28 on Examples of The Beatles borrowing from othershttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78760
The songshttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78760My favourite is the opening lines of Do You Want To Know A Secret being borrowed from the Disney film of Snow White
]]>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 20:27:46 -0500SatanHimself on Examples of The Beatles borrowing from othershttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78754
The songshttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78754Look at "Come Together". That one bit John so hard he ended up having to make a terrible '50s covers album to make up for it.
]]>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 15:54:09 -0500parlance on Examples of The Beatles borrowing from othershttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78753
The songshttp://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/the-songs/examples-of-the-beatles-borrowing-from-others/#p78753Prompted by this thread at the Steve Hoffman Music Forums, The Examiner posted an article called Did the the Beatles sample Dave Brubeck?

The "Kathy's Waltz" sample at 1:01 is pretty convincing.

Can you think of others? The first one that jumps at me is the bassline in "I Saw Her Standing There," taken from Chuck Berry's "I'm Talking About You," but I can't think of melodic similarities offhand.